Special Education Teacher (#1360878)

The Teacher, Special Education, is responsible for providing instruction to students with special needs and
will maintain required paperwork at federal, State, and local levels.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
• Instructs students in subject matter, using various teaching methods, such as lecture and demonstration.
Uses audiovisual aids and other materials to supplement presentation.
• Prepares to teach course of study, assigns lessons, and corrects homework papers corresponding to the
course of study.
• Keeps accurate attendance records.
• Maintains discipline in the classroom and on school grounds.
• Administers tests to evaluate progress, records results, and issues reports to inform parents of student
progress.
• Participates in faculty and department meetings, educational conferences, and appropriate teacher
training workshops.
• Encourages students to maintain appropriate standards of classroom behavior.
• Prepares for class and presents evidence of preparation when requested by immediate supervisor.
• Maintains availability to students and parents for education-related meetings outside the instructional
day when requested.
• Assists in enforcing school rules, Board policies, and administrative regulations.
• Meets and instructs assigned classes in the locations and at times designated.
• Represents the school to the community in a positive manner.
• Adheres to the Hawkins County Schools’ Employee Code of Conduct.
• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different
nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity.
• Adaptability to dealing with students.
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.
• The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles.
• Ability to reason and make judgments.
• Ability to understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them.
• Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately.
• Ability to move the hands easily and manipulate small objects with the fingers.
• To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of
figures.
• Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same
color.
• Possess strong writing, speaking, and human relations skills.
• Coaching is available for qualified candidates.
• Meet the necessary health and physical qualifications.
• Complete satisfactory background checks as required by the Tennessee State Department of Education
and State Law.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Special Education Supervisor and/or principal or his designee.